A Mending at the Edge (Change and Cherish Historical Series #3) | 
|  | | | Title: | A Mending at the Edge (Change and Cherish Historical Series #3) | | Author: | Jane Kirkpatrick | | Publisher: | WaterBrook Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 15 April, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1578569796 / 9781578569793 | | List Price: | $13.99 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.19 | |
 This book is also available, brand-new, from 3rd-party marketplace sellers at Amazon.com, from $4.98. |
The HTML code below can be pasted onto your web-site, your MySpace page, or blog - or any number of similar places - to create a link to this page: If, instead of a text link, you'd like to create a link to this page which will display the book cover, if it's available, then the code below will do exactly that:
Check for the same book at these other US book sites:
• [ Abebooks ] • [ Alibris ] • [ Barnes & Noble ] • [ Half.com ] • [ Powells ] … or check UK bookstores
| Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
“Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most.â€
So begins this story of one woman’s restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman’s desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it’s a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community?
| Other Items You May Enjoy:
Browse Books From These Related Subjects:
Customer Reviews:
• 3rd And Last Book In Series A Terrific Ending 21 April, 2008
A Mending at the Edge finishes Emma's story. Now living in the Aurora Colony in Oregon with her four children, she's still trying to live life on her terms, while also serving the colony and taking care of her family. The lessons she learns are increasingly hard, but Emma faces them all with courage and strength. After finally getting a house in which to raise her children, she loses the right to raise her own sons. Despite working long days there, there are people who still hold her previous mistakes over her head and judge her based on them. But Emma finally discovers what she values most and what home really means. Again this book resounded powerfully within me. Emma is often angry at God for giving her a life different than the one that she had hoped for. At first, she keeps trying to put her feet on the same path toward the future she wants, but when she accepts and embraces the present that the Lord has given her, she blossoms. Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis is a future I never thought I would face and one I still rail at God for giving it to me. Emma's life is full of lessons for me about faith, acceptance, and love. This is an absolutely terrific series.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A24H4WUFUDPTAA
• Historical Fiction 22 June, 2008
Jane Kirkpatrick has done it again! This is a wonderful story woven into Oregon history and is a joy to read. The characters come alive and stay in your heart long after the last page is read.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2PM44PTHUHRBY
• Fabulous Book 08 May, 2008
I have read the entire series of the Change,and Cherish Historical Series. In this final book, Emma comes into her own. She has gained wisdom through her trials. She has lost many people along the way. In this book, she shacks free from danger, but there is a price to pay. I just loved this series, as I have all of Jane Kirckpatrick's books. But this one is different. I find myself drawn to Emma, maybe because I have been through several of her trials.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AE33UXQBYJQ3E
• Don't Miss This One 27 April, 2008
Don't miss this lovely conclusion to the Change and Cherish series. A Mending at the Edge honors the American West and the roles of women who endured the hardships of the trail. This novel will inspire readers to choose hope in life. This reader highly recommends A Mending at the Edge. And be sure to read books #1 and #2 so you can learn more about Emma.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A31BFFLX272PY2
• Worth Reading 21 June, 2008
Emma Wagner Giesy has escaped from her abusive second husband, Jack, and she is going to the Oregon Territory to help found a communal society. But she isn't truly free. She is forced to live in Keil's house, Keil is the "commune" leader, who is married with children-but he is "BOSS" no one does anything without his permission. So since Emma is a woman she is not entitled to have her own home so she is forced to live in a small room with her four children in Keil's house until she "reconciles" with her abusive husband.
Emma works hard to support herself, but every penny she earns goes to her estranged abusive husband. A woman doesn't have any right to have any money of her own.
When Jack shows up at the commune, Emma is scared for her children's safely, and her own. After all, she hasn't completely healed from the last time Jack beat her. But Jack leaves the commune of his own free will, something Emma isn't allowed to do when her parents come out to the Oregon Territory.
Illness threatens the commune and Emma is forced to work harder than ever. When death comes calling, everything changes. But will they change for good?
A Mending at the Edge is based on a true story and is the third and final book in the Change and Cherish series. At times the way the story is told, keeping me from being completely engaged in it, but knowing that this story is actually a historical account keep the pages turning. At the end of the book, author Kirkpatrick shares where she got all her information, and fills in some of the missing pieces to the best of her ability.
I never did fully connect with Emma, but I did feel sympathetic toward her plight--a woman, in a man's world, separated from her abusive husband, yet everything she had and would get would always belong to that husband. I hoped things would work out for her.
Armchair Interviews says: Discussion questions are included at the end of the book useful for book clubs.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21NVBFIEQWDSG
|
